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“In Red River Métis tradition, storytelling is not just art; it is survival. Our ancestors braided history into song, laughter into lament, and grief into resistance.”

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Book:Whiskey Chaser
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Whiskey Chaser

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“The point is: have you ever noticed how we crush a cockroach without further worry and feel no remorse in spite of being in fact terminating a life? That's it. We do so because we don't identify ourselves with a cockroach. Because it's very diffent from us. [...] Thinking from that side, I suppose some people tend to do the same towards others. I mean, they see from distance those they don't identify with on the spot, do you get me? It's as if the stranger, who doesn't belong to the same group as we do, was seen as an inferior being... Almost a cockroach!”

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